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By Associated Press April 30, 2019 5:20 pm
MOSCOW (AP) The Russian gun rights activist convicted in the U.S. of conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent has lashed out at the American justice system.
Maria Butina told reporters in Moscow in a conference call Tuesday from a U.S. jail that I didnt expect such a severe punishment. They were her first public remarks since she was detained in Washington in July.
Butina complained that she received the same sentence one would receive for selling secret information to China, rather than failing to register for an otherwise legal activity.
She said it is a great shame on the American justice system.
Butina was sentenced to 18 months in prison by last week. The nine months already spent in detention count toward her eventual release and deportation to Russia.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/maria-butina-reaction-prison-sentence
*wait til she gets back to Russia, our "severe punishment" is going to be like a walk in the park...
2naSalit
(86,840 posts)She only gets whatever she hasn't already served out of that. And she f'ing lucky that's all she got and she gets to go home afterward, probably to a parade. She has no idea what actual harsh punishment feels like, I don't doubt that she's dished it out.